Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-02-04

lie HOUSE, L uo 1hfitdIlOn asks Jnem TO the
White House to meet the Diplomatic Corps,
and to attend all the receptions to Congress
mon and the army and navy.
colored convict in Mississippi has sued
the farm manager to whom the penitentiary
authorities hired him, for damages for cruel
treatment while he was serving his term there.
A jury, composed of eleven whites and on )
negro, gave the ex-convict 81, 600 damages.
statistician declares that while the annual
increase of the population is less than 2 per
more than 5 per cent 1t is said that there
are nearly 1900 more physicians in the Stats
of Illinois than are necessary.
At Scrantons Pa, street railway two and
two thirds miles. long has been run regularly
since December LIST, by electricity. The grade
is 300 feet to the mile and the cars make 81
trips day at cost less than horsepower.
Mrs. Eliza Meade, alias Lyons, pleaded
guilty at Albany, N. Y, to unlawfully draw
ing pension as widow after she had remar-
hard labor in the Albany penitentiarY. Two
Witnesses who signed her vouchers, were each
sentenced to Is months imprisonment
In Petersburg, Private Harris of r. E. Lee
Battery of Artillery refused to attend drill.
The captain of the company sent a squad of
five men after him, who used violence
dragged him out of the dry-goods store in
which he was a clerk, and carried him to the
armory. The private got out peace warrant
for all hands for assault, but they were dis
charged by the magistrate on the ground that
the law of the State which organized the vol
unteers also provided that the authority of the
officers to insure their effectiveness must be
supported.
W. A. Talley of Buchanan, Botetourt, who
had been selling churns in this State and
West Virginia went to sleep on the Richmond
& Allegheny train and being walked up by the
conductor at East Lexington. said he had
no ticket and that he wished to get off the
train. The conductor stopped for him, and
Talley on getting to the ground struck out for
a light across the frozen river. The ice broke
and he was drowned,
Philip Grove of Strasburg, Shenandoah, has
just slaughtered hog weighing 800 pounds,
gross. and 1888 pounds net This is the largest
hog that has been killed this season in the
valley.
In the Circuit Court of Loudoun county.
Va, Judge Keith has decided that merchant
who sells his ''good will" and binds himself
not to ''oppose" the buyer in the same bust
uess, may nevertheless go as clerk to some
other firm in the same business-though 1t
prevents his setting up for himself in it; also
that a merchant who sells his ''good will''
may set up the same business the next day,
next door to the purchaser of it, unless he has
covenanted not to do so.
William Reagan, an engineer on the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad,
paid So, 700 for twenty acres of land in Biz
mingham. Ala, several years ago. Last week
he telegraphed to the officials requesting them
to relieve him when his train arrived. He
had sold his land for $4,000.
The Salem "Times" says Mr.. John Gish of
Roanoke county, has been offered 5000 per
acre for his land in that county along the
Valley Railroad bed, and 300 additional for
each sulphur and chalybeate spring thereon.
The offer is made by company of colored
capitalists at the North, who are prospecting
to build a summer Watering place for colored
people only.
First Lieut.. L. Fl. Strother, First infantry,
has been detailed as military professor at the
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College
at Blacksburg, vice First-Lieut. J. G. Gresss
ham, Seventh cavalry, relieved at his own re-
quest. This change was made by order of
President Cleveland.
The first murder that has occurred in Shen-
andoah county for fifty years, took place
there last week near Woodstock Samuel
Jewell and Patrick Cavanaugh had an alter
cation in regard to line fence, when Charles
D. Ward, step-son of Cava naugh, said he
would settle the matter. He got out of bed
in his night clothes, went into another room,
got shot gun, and killed Jewell instantly.
Grayson county, Va, has more children,
for its population, than any county in this
State. So great is the number that, though
''white' county, it draws $4,000 more from
the school fund than it pays in. One ac-
coucher alone, Mrs. Nellie Hash, who lives in
the upper end of the county, has. within the
past forty-fye years, attended at 1904 births.
Sol Smith Russell tells story OF an enter
ta1nment that he and his father-in-law, W.
L. Adams ("Oliver Optic"). gave at Keene,
N. H., for the benefit of Grand Army Post.
An old gentleman said to him that to save
yi,,fi hi oJ
nounce each piece before the curtain. He had
been an officer of court. When it came
time for him to announce Sol, he raped
with his cane to command silence and said
ooh, yes! oh, yes Ladies and gentlemen of
Dodge Post No. 2, G. A. r., of Keene, thank
I have the honor to announce that this thing
will end with Mr.. Russelps representations of
curious characters he has met. Ice-cream in
the rear OF the hall, five cents !"
The annual report of the wooden mill at
Bedford county Va, shows that while it's
sales for 1885 were $25, O7s; those of 1885 were
$42, 096. Nearly all the sales have been made
to wholesale dealers in New York, by whom
the goods are sought after. The Directors
have resolved to increase the stock and buy
more machinery. The Sumter Cotton Factory
of SUMTER S. c., has just declared a dividend
of per cent for the year and added 10 per
cent. to their surplus-their net earnings for
the year being II per cent.
Mrs. Gen. Malone gave a reception at the
Arlington House, Washington, last week, to
introduce her daughter, who is debutante
this season. Miss Malone wore toilet of
light tulle over white satin. The front was
founced, with loops of MORE ribbon and there
was a brOiaASaSh of mnire at the hanL. Tho